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  2. Pencil - Wikipedia

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    A pencil (/ ˈ p ɛ n s ə l / ⓘ) is a writing or drawing implement with a solid pigment core in a protective casing that reduces the risk of core breakage and keeps it from marking the user's hand. Pencils create marks by physical abrasion, leaving a trail of solid core material that adheres to a sheet of paper or other surface.

  3. Drawing - Wikipedia

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    Leonardo da Vinci's Vitruvian Man (c. 1485) Accademia, Venice. Drawing is a visual art that uses an instrument to mark paper or another two-dimensional surface. The instruments used to make a drawing are pencils, crayons, pens with inks, brushes with paints, or combinations of these, and in more modern times, computer styluses with graphics tablets or gamepads in VR drawing software.

  4. Pencil drawing - Wikipedia

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    Pencil drawings were not known before the 17th century, [1] with the modern concept of pencil drawings taking shape in the 18th and 19th centuries. [1] Pencil drawings succeeded the older metalpoint drawing stylus, which used metal instead of graphite. [1] Modern artists continue to use the graphite pencil for artworks and sketches. [1]

  5. Penmanship - Wikipedia

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    Example of classic American business cursive handwriting known as Spencerian script from 1884 A thin object (pen), held with three fingers, allows one to draw thin lines. Penmanship is the technique of writing with the hand using a writing instrument .

  6. Sketch (drawing) - Wikipedia

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    Sketches can be made in any drawing medium. The term is most often applied to graphic work executed in a dry medium such as silverpoint, graphite, pencil, charcoal or pastel. It may also apply to drawings executed in pen and ink, digital input such as a digital pen, ballpoint pen, marker pen, water colour and oil paint.

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  8. Colored pencil - Wikipedia

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    Colored pencils are made in a wide range of price, quality and usability, from student-grade to professional-grade. Concentration of pigments in the core, lightfastness of the pigments, durability of the colored pencil, and softness of the core are some determinants of a brand's quality and, consequently, its market price.

  9. Book excerpt: "Source Code: My Beginnings" by Bill Gates - AOL

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    Just four years old at the time, the "Beginners' All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code" was made to help students in nontechnical fields get started with computer programming.